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SAPOTAS
Definition of SAPOTAS
noun
plural of sapota
noun
The tropical fruit from the sapodilla tree, Manilkara zapota. The fruit is 4–8 cm in diameter, has a fuzzy brown skin with very sweet earthy-brown flesh.
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Word DNA
SAPOTAS inherits its ancestry from its root, SAPOTA.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
39th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (127)
branch · 0.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SAPOTA · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SAPOTAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SAPOTAS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAOPSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and A appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found SAPOTAS?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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